Last night just before midnight, that building at JFK International Airport in New York was the scene of a well-planned heist that might have you fighting mad if you ordered an iPad mini. You see, thieves made off with 3,600 of them – two shipping pallets full – under the cover of darkness. They pulled [...]

There’s an old maxim: “Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.” This may be one of those cases. Iris scanning technology is here, but is being challenged over privacy concerns. The machine takes a picture of your eyeball from a few feet away, then checks it against a database, just like fingerprinting. [...]